In the evening, the sky was still gloomy, and a low-key state ceremony was underway in the Capitol Building in Chiyoda District, Tokyo.

In a conference room on the second floor of the east side of the building, under the bright mercury lights on the ceiling, only a dozen people attended the empty ceremony. At this time, they all sat on both sides of the long table paved on velvet cloth.

The arrangement of government activities is completely different from the usual way. In the conference room tonight, the noisy media reporters and the long guns and short cannons set up were gone. There were only a few people in their handheld video recorders and the cameras were responsible for recording and taking photos around the venue, and faithfully recorded the scene of the event for government agencies and participants.

In front of one wall facing the long conference table, a neatly arranged column of flags, interlaced with each other, and was split into blood-red plasters split by white format, forming abrupt contrast with the dark blue tones of the flags on the left and right sides; it was higher than the two interlaced columns, and one side was obviously in a hurry, with a little unadhesive base on the base, hanging on the wall that was pointed at the middle line of the conference table.

The night became darker, and the atmosphere in the conference room seemed a bit cold.

He occupied the chief seat on the narrow conference table, wearing a slightly fat and not fitting navy blue suit, the brick-red tie looked quite weird, and the hair was meticulously taken care of, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sat upright on the backrest chair, next to him were several cabinet officials in formal clothes or in uniforms of the Self-Defense Forces.

At a glance, there were not many participants on the side of the long table, but all the important members of the Japanese government and cabinet were present.

At such an important moment when signing the covenant documents, the lineup on the other side of the long table was really not commensurate with the size of the Japanese arrangement. The US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Assistant Secretary of State Miller Hamilton, who rushed over the previous day, and a general chief of staff from the NATO Military Commission, represented this military organization that had lost half of Western Europe. This is the whole team prepared by the Western world for this ceremony.

Of course, all this is no longer important now:

"Everyone, once the agreement is confirmed, you can sign it directly."

After receiving documents distributed to the seats by the secretary, the NATO Council staff who were in charge of the matter looked around and whispered to the Japanese government officials next to them. The general who actually presided over the meeting greeted everyone with a loud voice. There was no need to talk about red tape at this time.

Yes, if you don’t intend to make it public for such a routine occasion and let the general public know the details, why bother with fancy and whistle-like process?

I checked with the accompanying secretary, read all the documents, and confirmed that all the seals of all the present were accurate and valid. The admiral, with straight military uniforms and gray hair, looked up at Secretary of State Warren Christopher sitting next to me. The latter slightly tidied up his suit collar and nodded slightly to the general. So he cleared his throat, passed the words he wanted to say in his mind, and then he pronounced loudly:

"With the assistance of the government agencies of the United States of America, the Prime Minister of Japan exercised his or her representative power in accordance with his domestic laws and signed and ratified the agreement. I. Joseph Prych, Commander of the United States Pacific Joint Command, wishes to sign and confirm one by one on behalf of all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From now on, Japan will officially join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and, if necessary, will be able to fulfill the collective self-defense right of the Convention."

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As the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the two ends of the vast continent, although the time difference is about nine hours, political events with profound influence occur almost at the same time.

In London, the capital of the British, where fog was dissipating, Prime Minister John Major's speech was still passionate, calling on all the people of Great Britain to strengthen their beliefs and fight against the Warsaw Pact army that was coming like a tide. In order to cheer up the people who had been under unprecedented pressure for months, he focused on an important decision by the United Kingdom government, and under the witness of countless media, he personally took over the silver-gray suitcase from the deputy commander of the US Strategic Air Force. With this symbolic ceremony, it shows that Britain has recovered control of the launch of strategic nuclear weapons and will decide on its own when and who to use nuclear weapons to deal with unprecedentedly severe land threats.

As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, the United Kingdom is the third country in the world to reach the nuclear threshold. However, due to the continuous decline of national strength and status after the war, Britain, located in NATO's military integration system, has always been controlled by the United States and has no nuclear deterrence capability in a practical sense.

In the 1990s in a parallel world, the weapon combination of three "vanguard"-class nuclear submarines and "Trident II" submarine-launched ballistic missiles was completed. Britain's nuclear policy has not changed, but now new changes have emerged due to this inexplicable war between the East and the West.

Since a few months ago, the Soviet Red Army's rolling iron stream swept across Western Europe, the French turned against the enemy under heavy pressure, and the NATO group's years of hard work on the front line of Western Europe collapsed in a blink of an eye. The English Channel and the Pyrenees on the edge of the Western European continent have become a new battlefield for the two major camps to confront each other. Compared with Spain, which has limited strategic value, the status of the British Isles isolated from the European continent is naturally more important. Britain and France, which are facing each other across the sea, have now become a pair of rivals with cold eyebrows, and the battles breaking out over the strait have continued.

After the war in Western Europe ended, France and the Soviet Union signed a series of friendly cooperation treaties, and there were no ground troops stationed in its territory. Britain, which was under heavy pressure, had not yet been worried about landing across the sea.

However, with the sudden change in the Caucasus war situation, hundreds of thousands of NATO troops collapsed thousands of miles away. The "Desert Fox" under the prestigious Royal Army First Armored Division, the Seventh Armored Brigade, which once made a big splash in the Gulf War, was almost completely destroyed. The British Empire, which had always regarded itself very well but had a very fragile national mentality, was finally stabbed into a sensitive nerve.

As panic and anger spread, the cabinet quickly reached a dangerous consensus and decided to demonstrate to the Warsaw Pact group by unlocking nuclear clamps. On the surface, it also indicated that Britain would adopt a more independent policy to defend national security without any threat.

Such a strategy has to be said to be extremely tough and eye-catching enough, but whether the angry John Bulls will do the same as if they were to regain control of the nuclear weapons this time.

The British Isles in the Western world have already made tough calls; and under the instigation of the Americans, the four island countries outside the edge of the Eastern continent have made major decisions in the direction of the country without any sensation. After becoming a defeated country in World War II for 51 years, the Sunrise Country, which has not yet died, has hurriedly signed a series of bilateral documents and conventions with his master, and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a "normal country".

Unlike the loud noises in the West in the world, Japan's move to join the NATO group was not a big fanfare. Domestic television, radio and other media only mentioned the matter in the morning news the next day, saying, "For consideration of the future of the country and the welfare of all the people, for the sake of the present plan, we should strongly support all actions of all the actions of all the enemies against the red power. The Prime Minister has signed a document to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization led by Militaria..."

Almost at the same time of the day, the crumbling Western world was given two shots of agitated shots. The news that Britain announced the lifting of nuclear weapons restrictions and Japan announced its joining NATO quickly spread throughout the world, and also attracted great attention from officials and people of various countries.

Since the war broke out for several months, the protracted confrontation between the East and the West has continued; now it seems that this road of war, which cannot see the dawn of peace, naturally becomes even more bleak.

In the Middle East, the Warsaw Pact Group suffered a heavy blow and lost Turkey, an important bridgehead for containment. The blood-stained United States of America not only did not retreat and make peace, but instead struggled with all the subordinates who could be used to swore an alliance. This fact mercilessly reminded everyone in the world that a world war that had originally been inexplicably broke out has evolved into a life-and-death battle that determines the ultimate fate of the Eastern and Western countries. This battle where no one is willing to take a step back and in fact there is no way out, it is absolutely impossible to end easily before the final victory or defeat is decided.

The major events that occurred in distant countries spread throughout the media and Long Yun, who was recuperating in a Moscow villa, was soon heard of.

Just early the morning after meeting Vladimir Pukin, Long Yun, who had recovered his energy, got up very early. He moved his muscles and bones in the living room and watched the morning news broadcast on TV.

The so-called news programs during the war period, the trivial matters were naturally gone. After more than ten minutes of continuous boosting morale and introducing some regular contents of the war situation, the process entered the international news period. He heard the major news that Britain controlled the nuclear button and Japan joined NATO. In addition to being surprised, he also curled his lips at the blood-red plaster flag on the TV image.

Huh, I didn’t expect that in just a few days, the NATO Group recovered from the fierce Middle East?
Chapter completed!